cultivating space for every-body.

Through regenerative coaching and inclusive design, Alice supports businesses, brands and creative teams to help care for the communities they serve while reconnecting to deeper ecological rhythms.

“Just as ecosystems support diverse lifeforms and adapt to sustain themselves, we need to prioritise authentic collaboration and interconnected, regenerative approaches within brand culture.”

As a consultant, Alice brings deep attention to inclusive apparel and spatial design, with a focus on disability, chronic illness and embodied experience. Her coaching is rooted in ecological thinking and somatic awareness, encouraging slower, more reciprocal ways of working that centre access, care and collective wellbeing.

From technical adaptions to accessible environments and experiences, Alice works closely with founders, teams and independent creatives to expand what is possible for those often left at the edges of design. Like healthy ecosystems, truly inclusive businesses thrive through interdependence, diversity, and thoughtful adaptation.

Whether working with global brands, B Corps or independent studios, her approach is always guided by connection, care and long-term thinking, creating space for communities to thrive and for more regenerative, inclusive futures to take root.

An embodied practice of advocacy, rooted in story, lived experience, and community.

Weaving together writing, speaking, and collective spaces, Alice works to reimagine cultures at the intersection of disability, ecology, design, and healing — inviting more inclusive, embodied futures.

Through fostering expansive conversation, she invites visibility, care, and new ways of belonging to guide a new generation of designers and socially responsible organisations and institutions towards possibilities of meaningful change within our communities.

Guiding panels, retreats, films, and curriculum design, she centres lived experience as a catalyst for change. It is not about representation alone, but about deep listening, radical inclusion, and designing futures where every-body is considered.

Clients include:

ISPO Munich, Kendal Mountain Film Festival, WGSN, British Pilgrimage Trust, University of Plymouth, Falmouth University, Millimetres 2 Mountains

Returning to the body, returning to the Earth

Somatic ecology is a way of remembering that our bodies are not separate from nature — they are nature. It explores the relationship between our inner landscapes and the living world around us.

Rooted in movement, rest, and sensory connection, somatic ecology invites us to slow down, listen deeply, and come back into relationship — with ourselves, with others, and with the Earth. It is both personal and collective, healing and activist.

Through this lens, Alice guides experiences and design practices that honour the body as a site of knowing, and the land as teacher, mirror, and co-regulator.

This work holds space for grief, slowness, illness, joy, and return. It is not about fixing, but about feeling, and remembering that regeneration begins within.

A Path Unknown is a social enterprise lead by Alice Sainsbury offering accessible, somatic journeys through nature. Rooted in slowness, A Path Unknown creates space for healing, slow adapted pilgrimage, ecological restoration, and rest for every-body. It invites those living with illness, grief, or disconnection to walk slowly, rest deeply, plant gently, and return to themselves and the land.

Through movement, rest, and story, we honour the path of uncertainty not as something to overcome, but as a return to body, to land, and to truth.

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Alice is the founder of TAO Studio — the art of moving in harmony with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. TAO explores the body’s relationship with nature through experimental, ethical wears — slow garments that honour the circular regeneration of soil, soul, and society. More than clothing, TAO garments are centred around the idea that what we wear is not a separation but an extension of self.

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